Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1879 — Page 3

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Wlfn CLEARER VISION. I saw. to-night, the men I loved Three little yean ago; I did not thins so short a time Oould change a mortal sol There were none like him in those days, ' Ho strong, so true, so wise) He had a lofty, marble brow, And tender, soulful eyes. A voice of music; hair by whiih Tho raven's wing Tould seem But pale indbed; a face and form To haunt a sculptor’s dream. But when I looked at him to-night, 1 saw no single trace Of the old glory; only just Avery common face. No marble brow, no soul-lit orbe; The face was round and sleek That once to my love-hannted eyes Was so intensely Oreek. I know full well be has not changed Bo very much. Ah, me! But 1 was blincj iu those doar days, And how, ulna! 4 see. ’ Tis very dreadful to be blind, Of course, and yet to-night I should be happier, far, if I Had n,ot received my sight. One little thought will trouble me—- . 1 only wish f knew Whether lie still is blind, or if His eyes are open, too. —Carlolla Perry.

AUNT RUTH’S VALENTINE.

“Dinah,”saidAuntßuth, “thee may light the gas in the hall and see who is at the door. I hear tho bell again.” “’Deed, missus, it’s only another of them mizzable boys with their valentines, I ’spect! My legs is broke now, and I’se got a dreadful misery in my back a-runnin’ to the door with nothin’ there but them no ’count pictures and chalk-marks on the steps!” Dinah sailed majesticaly from the room. She opened the door cautiously a few inches and peered out into the snow-storm that was raging; but seeing no one proceeded to close it again with muttered invectives against all “ mizzable white trash,” when she saw a small boy, ten or twelve years of age, black as ebony, scantily clad in a cottom shirt and ragged pants, which were a world too large for him, and were drawn nearly to his shoulders, beingheld in place by suspenders of twine, and turned up at the ankles, showing a pair of bare feet. This small boy, surveying her a moment quite as coolly as she surveyed him, at last deliberately stepped into the lighted doorway dragging by the hand a shivering little girl almost hidden in the folds of a ragged coat. This coat he now dexterously jerked from her shoulders, saying: “ Here’s a wallentine fur the lady wot lives here!” Then turning, he ran rapidly down the steps without one look back into the hall, where the bewildered Dinah stood staring stupidly after him, and disappeared aroand the first corner into the snowy darkness. Tho little, smutty-faced, blue-eyed “valentine,” so unceremoniously delivered, still stood motionless under the gas-light awaiting further developments. Dinah at last recovered speech and action, and closed the door with a bang. “Missus, missus! for mussy sake look-adhere!” As the lady obeyed the imperative summons and stepped into the hall, the little bundle of tatters and rags moved to her side and peered up into the placid face surrounded by the prim folds of a Quaker cap. Seeming to recognize a friendly heart shining in the serious eyes, she thrust into her hand a scrap of dirty, crumpled paper, saying: “ Dick writ it!” r - Aunt Ruth Took the -queer-looking

document and, with a puzzled look at the bearer, proceeded to decipher the queer hieroglyphics. It had evidently been a laborious task for the grimy lingers that had traced them; but at last she picked out the message embodied in letters of all sizes and shapes. The writer had evidently mado it his sole aim to represent the facts in the case, nobly regardless of the minor considerations of orthography and punctuation: " Thi* littul au,rl Hain't Ri»t no folks nor no wares to sta only a womman that be ten hur ors ul and mo and a box with (draw into it to sloap in nites. l v brunt’ Hur to 13ee yure wallentme. Hbe s hungry. Dick.” While the lady was laboring over the odd missive tho little waif stood looking soberly up into her face, and when she raised her eyes, full of pity and compassion, the child said: “ He told me he writ into it that 1 wasn’t nobody’s -girl- only his’n. and that I’d be your wallentine! I don’t look like’em, but I’ll be it. I’d like to. It's jolly warm here, only my feet’s cold,” and she looked down at tho boy’s boots she had on, ragged and run over at the heel. “ They’s Dick’s. He made mo wear ’em when I cried!” “Thee may‘take the child to the kitchen, Dinah, and give her something to eat. I will come presently, and perhaps 1 can find out where she belongs.” Dinah led her down tho hall, the wet boots shuttling heavily over the carpet, and tho bright blue oyes, shining out of the smutty face like stars from a mudhole, lifted apprehensively to tho dark face. ‘‘l dodeclar fer it,” muttered the old woman, “white trash and black trash -is—mostly alike -in their no ’count pranks, that’s a fact! Blostif this ain’t tho queerest piece of business I’so evot seen at this house yit! A wallentine! Missus Ruth’s ways is so onexpected’ Heroi you poor, little, white beggar!’! Dintth's crusty manner softened a little as she watched the greediness with which the child, devoured the big slice of bread and butter; but she, melted outright when, as she finished her rare foast, the little “ white beggar” slid from her chair and caught and kissed the big black hand, saying: “I likes you ’cause you look like Dick. I likes good black folks!” When Aunt Ruth came down she found her “wallentine” seated in Dinah’s own rocking-chair before the Are, while Dinah herself, down on the floor, had the almost frozen feet in her lap, rubbing them and giving vent to some very unorthodox expressions of opinion as to the orderings of Providence. “Sakes alive! don’t know’s it’s so, but the Lo’d seems to pay a mighty sight of ’tention to some folks and forgit all about the rest. ’Pears like -oMWto nought -to be looked after anyhow. They ain’t, though, half on ’em! Things is queer in this world if ’tis the £o’d r s world!" - “Well, child,” said Annt Ruth, “now that thee is warm and fed will thee tell thy name and where thee belongs?” She shook her bead.

“ Don’t belong nowheros. Father always called me ‘ Drat-you-Bab!’ ” Aunt Ruth sighed 1 over this dolorous compound cognomen. “ Has thee no mother?”

“Once. She called mo ‘ Here-you-Bab!’ Father struck her with a bottle and she’d gone dead in the morning. And one day the perlice took father away, and old Bet told me to go ’long, too, and I went ’long fer as I could. 1 hadn’t nowheres to stop, and I crawled into Dick’s box, and he put straw over me and fixed me a jolly nice and ev’ry day he took care of me. He made me this—” and here poor, little “ Drat-you-Bab” stooped and drew from one of her capacious boots a doll, whittled from a stick and artistioally finished with coal as to hair, eyes and mouth. She looked at it admiringly for a moment, rearranged tho drapery of old Erint, which was somewhat disturbed y its journey in the boot, and then restored it to its resting-place. Aunt Ruth sighed again. “ Give her a warm bath, Dinah, and thon'theo may make her a bed on the lounge in my room. yrill find thee something thafc-wiif serve her as a night-dress.” And then poor, little, wondering “Drat-you-Bab” was soon wrapped in a warm shawl and curled down on the lounge in Aunt Ruth’s pleasant room; too much excited by the noveltv of her position to sleep, too thoroughly comfortable to do anything but hug her wooden treasure and stare, first at the pretty surroundings, then at the benevolent face at the fireside. Suddenly she raised herself on her elbow. “ Dick said he hearn there was nangels that lived somew’eres an’ took care of folks. Be you one?” “No, no, child,” said Aunt Ruth, gently, “I am only Aunt Ruth. Go to sleep.”

“ Yes’m. But Ido wish Dick was a wallentine, too! It’s wdrry cold into his box.” Aunt Ruth and Dinah sat into the night nastily fashioning warm garments; but they considered themselves well repaid by the delight with which they were donned in the morning. While happy little “ Drat-you-Bab” was taking her bountiful breakfast by the side of the kitchen stove, a shadow darkened the window, and the little girl, looking up, exclaimed, joyfully: „ . “ Oh, there’3 my Dick!” Dinah opined the door and bade him “Come ’long in,” giving him a jerk to facilitate his movements. He shambled bashfully in, and in a moment the child’s arms were around his neck, and her face, almost pretty in its unwonted cleanliness, nestled caressingly against his blrfck cheek, while she poureaout a torrent of eager exolamations of satisfaction at being a “ wallentine.” When she at last released him, Dinah took him by his shoulders, and seated him firmly in a chair. “Now,” said she, “you’sjest a goin’ to set there till you ’splain the whole ’rangement to me and missus. An’ you jest lay out to tell the trufe, the whole trufe, an’ nollin but the trufe all the way through—that is if ye kin. Niggus* is mostly mighty onsartin!” When Aunt Ruth came down she found her “ wallentine”-bringer, refreshed by a breakfast the like of which he had never before enjoyed, sitting by the fire with the “wallentine” at his side—her two little hands tightly held in one of his own, and supreme satisfaction at the success of his odd scheme shining in every feature of his honest face. Her eyes filled as she stood in the door a moment unnoticed by the children, but she was not given to any demonstrations and made no comment.

And then Dick rose in his place still holding both the little hands. “I hain’t got much to tell, ma’am. I’m Dick the boot-black, an’ this yer little girl I found one night last week. Me an’ Joe Rafferty had been to a place where they had some picters and things the man called a * pandorammer,’ an’ when we come out ’twas late an’ wo was cold an’ we run all the way to the box. The box is a big box down by Higley’s warehouse, an’ we sleep into it. An’ we found this little Baba-curle'd up into it asleep. Joe he was a-goin’ to bounce fag? - ) but when he seen how little she was, he didn’t. He jest yauked off his coat an’ put it over her an’ some old carpet, too, an’ we did cover her up elegant, an’ she slep’ beautiful till mornin’. In the mornin’ she talked an’ we reckoned to take care of her our own selves after that. Joe an’ me got her crackers an’ milk an’ things when we could, an’ we made believe she was our housekeeper, Joe swep’ the crossins an’ one daj r a runaway team knocked him down an’ killed him all of a sudden. This here Bab, she cried so, ah’ was so lonesome after Joe, that I allowed it was better ttf try an’ had her a home if I eould. ••*'* “ I seen folks a sondin’ wallentines for presents an’ I thought some one orter like a little girl better nor they would a picter. I seen you on the street, ma’am, when you give the lame man some money, an’ I follered along that day to see where you lived, air when you went up the steps you seen me,, ma’am, an’ smiled out of your eyes so good that I most knowed you’d be kind to a little girl that hadn’t no one but me. She’s real cute, ma’am! 1 seen you once, too,” added he to Dinah, who stood with dish-towel in hand, gravely weighing his words. “ 1 was a-blackin’ a fellers boots on the market the day you boxed that chap’s ears for dragging the dog over the stones in the gutter. Didn’t he run, though, when vow let him go?” “ I’elar fort,” said Dinah, “he’s telUn!.the tcufel ’Peared like I felt he might be liable the minnit I sot eyes on him.” Dick mado no comment on Dinah’s “ change of base,” but looked earnestly into Aunt Ruth’s face. As she said nothing, he repeated timidly, with a little quaver in his voice: “She ain’t got no mother nor nobody in the whole world only me, ma’am; an’she's real cute!” “Dick,” said Aunt Ruth, quietly, “ I should think thee would rather find a home for thyself than to take all this trouble for a strange little girl.” “Ma’am,” said Dick, gravely, “I heard a prcacher-man on the street one day, ma’am, tollin’ about a good fellow that wanted the little children took care of and that he said into some book or other (he had itthere an’ read out of it), ‘ When you do it to them you do it to me an ’ Til remember an' be good to you some time for it!' When we found Bab a-curled up in the box, lookin’ so little an’ so helpless, >< I thought it meant for us to take care of her, an’ we talked it over an’ poor Joe he reckoned so, too.” ™ m Keep “mv walentine, Dick," Aunt Ruth paid, looking into the fire with a smile. “1 never, heard of sending back a valentine, I bfelieve. And I think Til send one myself, too. I .want thee to a note for me to Friend Bradley’s office on. Harlem street, Dick."

Tha notowaq written in a fair, upright hand, in a fewooncise words: "Friend Bradley. I nend thee a Valentine. Thee will find the linen belonging to it in the tWSnty-fifih chapter pf Matthew, fortieth Verne. “ Ruth Hjuimon." It is a year since Aunt Ruth reoeived and sent a valentine. And the 14th of February, 1879, when it comes, will find the sun shining on no happier child than little “Drat-you-Bab'’ no prouder boy than “Valentino Dick,” who occupies the responsible post of errand boy in Friend Bradley’s office; no more'peaceful heart than Aunt Jtuth’s; and certainly he would fail to spy out, with his strongest beams, a more dignified, undismayed, constitutional grumbler than poor old Dinah, who pets or scolds the two ohildren as inclination and opportunity dictate, and who sums up the whole matter in these words: “’Sometimes children is a comfort, and sometimes they is an aggravation. Them two—them two wallentines —is awearin’ the life out of my bones, poor orphanless things! But Missus Ruth is so sot in her ways that I’ve got to have’em round under foot to the end of time, if the Lo’d spares us!”— Mrs. Lucy M. Rlinn, in Wide-Awake.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The lato Representative Schleicher weighed 850 pounds a littlo while before he died. —Dr. LeMoyne’s cremation furnace in Pennsylvania is paying so poorly that there is talk of turning it into a pop-corn factory. -.-The Rev. Jack Walkingstick, the Rev. Poor Wolf and the Rev. Mr. Whirlwind are members of the Cherokee Indian Baptist Association in the ludian Territory. —The sale of photographs of Government celebrities at Washington shows some curious facts. More of Mrs. Hayes’ photographs are sold than of any other person. Of the Senators, Blaine’s sells better than any other by one-half, Lamar and Gordon following. — N. Y. Evening Post. —The physician who is attending Justice Hunt, of the United States Supreme Court, says that though his patient is improving he fears that he will never recover the use of his side. His mind is perfectly clear, but while he can answer questions with “Yes” or “No,” he cannot connect sentences. —Although Senator Sharon, of Nevada, has held his office nearly four years lie has been so little in his seat that some of his colleagues had never seen him until his recent arrival at Washington, and very few of them-had made his acquaintance. He is fiftyeight years old and is described as short and thin, light-complexioned, unprepossessing in figure, and weighing scarcely more than 100 pounds.—Exchange. —Judge Henry G. Smith, of Memphis, Tenn., who died a few days ago, is described as a man of singular bravery, as is illustrated by the story of one of his cases tried years ago in Tennessee. He was to prosecute a man for murder. Friends of the murderer let it be known that they would kill whoever appeared as prosecutor. Mr. Smith began the trial by producing two pistols, which he kept'by him until the man was convicted. — N. Y. Evening Post. —Bishop Simpson (Methodist Episcopal) was about to begin his lecture before the Yale theolgical students, the other day, when he was seen to pause and look for something. “ Young gentlemen,” he said, “I find myself in the position of the preacher who was informed by a lady that thirdly had flown out of the window.” A part of his manuscript was missirg, and while Prof. Fisher went away to search for it the Bishop entertained his audience with a half-hour’s talk on President Lincoln.

—This story is told of Mme. Sontag, the singer > During her visit to this country, fifteen or twenty years ago, she was not pleased with the pitch of her piano. She sent for the tuner, gave him the tuning-fork, which had a lower pitch than the piano, and told him to tune the piano down to that. The man bethought himself of a laborsaving device. He raised the pitch of the fork by filing it off a little at the ends, and when he presented it again to Mme. Sontag, she found the piano in perfect accord with it, and was exceedingly delighted. —Hiram Y. Reese died, recently, at his home in Franklin Countv, Pa., aged almost ninety-two years. lie was tho father of twenty-live sons, twenty of whom are vet living,lhe eldest being sixty-six and the youngest twenty-four shears old. His lirst wife had six sons, ins second eleven and his third eight, and six of the children were twins. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and had nine sons in the Union Army during the late war, two of whom were killed at the first Battle of Bull Run, a third at Ball's Bluff, and a fourth was drowned during Banks’ ill-starred Red River Expedition He was a remarkably robust pian. and never but onee during his fife did he take medicine.

An Unfortunate Turkey.

A Glenburn farmer came into the city, recently, and among other things purchased some rice andapintof whisky. Fearing that the bottle might get broken on the way homo, ho placed it in the box containing the rice. When he reached home and took the box from the pung he found that the stopple had got Out of the bottle, and rice and—w-bteky wwe-thoroughly-mixod. He dumped the contents of the box behind the barn, and in a short time a huge turkey came along, and, as he was not as" particular as the farmer, gobbled up the medicated rice. Short13' after this the farmer was greatly surprised to.find the turkey lying out behind the barn “ dead as a door-nail,” and vowing vengeance on the man who sold him whisky rank enough to kill a turkey, ho carried the bird into the house. The farmer was soon after seen carrying the naked t>ird—as every feather was gone vyitb the’exception of the wings and tail—out behind the stable. where he left it on the snow. The next morning when he entered the stable, it being hardly light, he detected what he .thought wa*Hhe ghost of that intemperate turkey, and could almost feel his hair rise; but he made up his mind to investigate the matter and boldly adyftnoem Imagine his surprise, on petting nearer, to discover the bird shivering on the roost, and looking at him with reproachful eyes for having stolen his clothes while helplessly drunk. At last accounts the turkey was doing as-well as could be expected during that zero weather—Bangor (Me.) Whig. ■No wosDBB the peoplf hive confidence, when the beet . physicians are prescribing Dr. Bull’s Cough Byrap in all cues of Cough, Cold, etc.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—The Rural New Yorker says the best thing for one to bny, if hq is sure of a good artiole, at a low price, is exEerience. Our contemporary might ave added, and yet of all valuables it is the least salable.— Exchange. —When tho voloe is lost, as is sometimes the case, from the effects of cold, a simple, pleasant remedy, says an exchange, is furnished by beating up the white of one egg, adding to it the juice of one lemon, and sweetening with White sugar to taste. It has been known effectually to cure the ailment. . —Western breeders and raisers are ciphering out a rise in the price of hogs. One of the most observant says: “The farmers all over the country are putting their brood sows, pigs and all they can get into market this winter, seemingly in the belief that thero will be no hogs needed next year. The result will be a snort crop and high prices.” —To cure chapped hands, take of sweet oil three ounces, spermaceti four ounces, pulverized camphor one ounce. Mix together in a clean earthen vessel by the aid of gentle heat, and apply it warm to the hands night and morning. Another very good oifitment may be made with a little fresh, newly-churned butter and honey. Another very valuable remedy is to grease the hands when cracked or chapped with castor oil. It is a sure cure.

—The following recipe is given by an old gentleman of Charlottesville, Va., who states that he has often known it to be used in cases of diphtheria, and has never known it to fail in effecting a cure: Take a handful of alder root, a handful of dogwood root, a handful of the bark of persimmon root, boil with a pint of vinegar down to a half pint; then add a very little water, a small lump of alum and a little honey. Let the patient use it frequently as a gl®—The following is given as a correct rule for measuring corn in the ervb: Multiply the length by the breadth, ana this product by the depth of corn in the pen. Multiply this again by 4j, and point off one decimal place. This result will be the answer in bushels. For instance, we have a pen of corn 48 feet long, 7 \ feet wide, and 8} feet high. Multiplying these three dimensions together, we have 3,060 cubic feet. Now multiplying this by 4J, we have 13,770. Pointing off the one decimal, we have, as the contents of the pen, 1,377 bushels. —A very good and cheap sled can be made out of planks eight to fen inches in width and two inches in thickness. Plank raves, an inch and a quarter in thickness and six inches in width, are better than poles. The outer edge, from the front beam to the end of the runner, or roller, to which the tongue is attached, should be tapered. For a strong sled, three beams will be required. Bore the holes for the stakes through the raves and the beams. In preparing the beams, make a notch on each side, five inches from the end, so that an Inch and a quarter white oak pin can be driven down through the raves each side of the beam into the runners. In preparing the roller for putting in the tongue, make the mortise in it about two by ten inches in front, and two by twelve or thirteen on the back side, and drive in heavy plank wedges also from the back side of the roller, and pin securely. The double tree should be placed not more than twelve or fourteen inches from the roller. Such a sled, with some slight changes, perhaps, will serve a very good purpose, where a home-made one is desired. —Farm and Fireside.

Handling Sheep.

Not even the cow should receive gentler handling than the sheep. Kindness is always well repaid by any of our domestic animals, but the sheep being so shy an animal, it requires special exhibition of kindness. It should be so handled and treated as it will never become frightened at the approach of a person. Their treatment should be such as that they will actually learn to entertain an affection for their keeper, and if they do, they will naturally be tame and docile. A flock of wild sheep is about the most unprofitable investment that afarmer can make. They are continually getting themselves into some trouble, and causing great annoyance, if Sot loss, to their owner. We have seen some flockmen jump into a flock and pull and haul the sheep by the wool until the animals were not only half frightened to death, but suffered great fnjury.otherwise. A sheep should never be caught or lifted by the wool. Some one has said that if anyone doubts the impropriety of lifting a sheep by the wool, just let him permit himself to be lifted by the hair, and it is a good suggestion. When sheop are thus caught or lifted, the skin in some instances is actually torn from tho flesh, and if the injury is not to that extent it cannot but affect the flesh to some degree.

A sheep should be lifted by placing the arms around the body and near the forelegs. This is the easiest way to do, especially with large sheop. To catch the animal, the hands should be thrown about the neck, or else the sheep should be caught by the hind leg immediately above the hock. This latter may be done with the lmnd or the crook, and when this way is adopted tho utmost gentleness should be observed, and the sheep gently drawn back until the other hand can reach the neck. It is scarcely oecessaxyAa- jramind-the keeper thatwhen the crook is used upon a sheep which is closely surrounded by other sheep, that great care mu9t be exercised lest the other sheep jump against the one caught or against the crook, in which case severe damage may be done. —Western Rural. ;.J ...—rr-v . .

value of Sweet Apples.

Comparatively few sweet apples are raised in the West. The owners of commercial orchards state that they are not salable. Dealers affirm that the further West a city is located the smaller is the proportion of sweet to .sour apples required to supply the market. There is always wisdom in raising those crops for salefor which there is a market. It is expensive to educate the taste of people. It is better to give them what they want than to attempt to teach them that something else is preferable. . Observation shows that color, ahape\aod size have more to do in selling apples than quality and flavor. In this market smoooth, bright, red apples will find a ready sale, however tough, dry and tasteless theflbah may be. Highly-oolored peaches of inferior. quality will always sell at better prices than light-colored ones of the richest flavor. Color and si zb also determine the market value of strawberries. Whether any are produced for sale or not, farmers, would do well •to raise a

liberal supply of sweet applet for their own use. Baked sweet apples are among the cheapest klhds of food that can be placed on the table. They re* ijUlrb no preparation aside from cooking, and are sweet enough without the addition of sugar. They may be baked when there is no use for theetove-oven, and are none the worse for having been cooked several days. As a substitute for sauce, preserved or canned fruit, they arc excellent Eateir with rich oream they are hardly inferior to ripe peaches. Baked sweet apples and milk form a dish that is the delight of epicure. An excellent sauce may be made of sweet apples and boiled cider, that can be kept the entire year. In New England it is customary to freeze this sauce, and to thaw out portions of it as it is wanted for use. Sliced sweet apples are no); inferior to imported dried fruit in making puddings. As stock food sweet apples are greatly superior to sour ones. They are excellent food for dairy cows and young stock of all kinds. When stock nave the run of an orchard after the choice fruit is gathered the animals will run to the trees that produce sweet apples with as much certainty as boys will. Sweet apples contain so much sugar that they are very valuable as food for animals that are intended to be fattened. Hogs that are so dainty as to refuse to eat sour apples will eagerly devour sweet ones, even when they are uncooked. All kinds of poultry are fond of boiled sweet apples. The value of sweet apples as food for stock has not been properly appreciated. An acre of land in well-beariDg sweet apple trees will furnish more stock food than an acre in any crop that requires constant cultivation during the entire summer. With a little attention to pruning and manuring they will produce a crop during an averago lifetime. —Chicago Times.

Sir John Lubbock and His Ants.

One of the best rooms on the first floor of High is devoted to work, and at the present moment contains a menagerie of ants. Between thirty and forty species are represented by separate nests, placed under glass, carefully shaded from the light, and surrounded by water to prevent the interesting insects from escaping and pervading the house. It is pleasant to see Sir John Lubbock, arrayed in his working suit of gray stuff, gently uncovering the nests, and replacing the screens quickly lest the animals should take alarm at the influx of light, and be thrown into disorganization by the thought that their nest is attacked. It is curious to observe that these tiny creatures have animals with them, which, it may be presumed, are useful in some way, as the ants forbear to attack them. They are mostly of the beetle race, and some, like the little Claviger, are quite blind, possibly from confirmed subterranean habits, and are only found in ants’mests, the proprietors of which take -as much care of them as they do of their own young. Apparently ants have a considerable variety of domestic animal?, among which the blind Platyarthrusls conspicuous, as well as the Beckia albinos, the latter of which was first fully described by Sir 'John, Lubbock, who suggests that perhaps these two act the part of the Constantinople dog and the turkeybuzzard, making themselves useful as scavengers. An hour’s chat with the owner of this well-organized work-room has a tendency to dispel some early illusions of the unscientific mind concerning the industry of the ant. It is an industrious creature in the main, but there are ants and ants. The large red species found in Central Europe, and which displays extraordinary activity when light is admitted to its nest, is not industrious at all, being a purely fighting aristocrat and slaveholder. She—the fighting ants are Amazons—makes predatory excursions, like the “ commandoes” of theold Dutch boers, and carries off the pupae or chrysalis, the so-called ants’ eggs, of which young pheasants are so fond, of another species, and brings them up as slaves. As Sir John Lubbock points out, the slaveholders present “ a striking instance of the degrading tendency of slavery.” They can neither wash nor feed themselves. They have lost the greater part of their instincts; their art, or power of building; their domestic habits, for they take no care of their young; their industry, for they take no part in providing themselves with food; and, if the colony changes its nest, the rulers are carried by their slaves to the new one. Even their structure has altered; their mandibles have lost their teeth, and have become mere nippers, terrible in war but useless for other purposes. So helpless, except for lighting purposes, have they become, that, it deprived of their slaves, they actually die of hunger. These curious facts, which sound almost like the romance of natural history, have all been verified at High Elms by observations which confirm those of Huber in almost every case. —London World. —A South Carolina belle, who is expected to dazzle society in Washington when her father gets there, is Miss Hampton, the daughter of the Senatorelect. She is described as tall, slender and graceful, with dark hair and remarkable conversational powers.

A resident of North Troy, Vt., has been held in SI,OOO bail for drawing caricatures of prominent citizens.

$500 Reward.

They cure all disease* of the Stomach, Bowels, Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys and Urinary -©reins, *nd -*506 wtH be paid for a case they will not cure or help, or for anything impure or Injurious found In them—Hop Bitters. Tbst It See “Truths” or “Proverb*," another column.

Dr. Pond’s Cancer Institute.

The Continued and unvarying success of Dr. F. L. Pond, of Aurora, 111., In bis treatment of cancer and kindred diseases, Is something so extraordinary us to be worthy of more than passing notice. Since the Doctor first opened the doors of bis mansion to tbe afflicted, hundreds of cases have passed under his care. Some came in good time, before the dreadful scourge h»a fully developed and fastened’itseif on some vital part of the system; but by far the largest number only came to the Doctor when their family physician had given them up and hope had almost fled. Yet, notwithstanding what might properly be called such unfair odds against him, the Doctor his but seldom failed to cure even these desperate cases, and In no Instance has he failed to give relief- Such a record is simply marvelous. The Hospital is capable of accommodating in the neighborhood of 900 patients. It should be said, here, .that this Institution is not a hospital In the common acceptation of the term. There are no large wards, where numbers of patients are lodged together, to annoy each other with their complaints! Nor la the .attendance of that mechanical sort so generally afforded. At a Very moderate charge each patient may have a room to himself, and the most careful and tender attention Is bestowed off all, All afflicted with Cancer are adylsed to goatonoCfb Dr Ptfhd. Kkdccfd Prick.— Twentv-flye cent* will now Buy a dfty t cent bottle of Piso't Cars for Consumption. Thus the best Cough Medicine la within tbe reach of everybody. For sale by all druggists. Cmw Jackson’s Beat Sweet Navy Tobacco,

Business Failures.

Lank iif Judgment uum fully 60 per unt of all bu ilneaa men to fall, earlier or leter. Do not a a equal proportion of physicians fall tocurelrom the same causet At the Grand Invalids' and Tourlsta’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. T., Dr. Pierce, through the skill attained by hta several specialists, each having devoted years to a special department of medical science, la able to cure a large percent of cases hitherto considered lucurable. Many physicians, in view of the superior advantages of this model sanitarium, briug there stubborn, obscure, completed, and surgical cases, for examination#. operation, and treatment. Full partlculara given in the People’s Common dense Medical Adviser, an Illustrated work of over 000 pages. Price, post-paid, 61.50. Address the author, R. V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.

1 MJmtim! S Imitation TAINEI I GLASS. PATENTED DEG. 3, 1878. , CURTAINS. SHADES AND BLINDS Dispensed with. New, E'eicant, Cheap and Durable. It produces all the unique effect* of a rlelilj painted or "•vg'M’Uy HI allied Window. It la easily appUed to the glass In Window* of Houses, f hurdle*, Public Bull (lings. Steamboat*. Street and Railroad Can, LI brartea. Parlors, Offlees, Bath Booms. Stairway*. Transom*, Vestibule Doors, etc., with the full effect anti brilliancy of varlouslr colored ground glass. The article MnMSSr >an,lnot * Blntlo •«•"« has a* ONE GOOD MAN eidmUw^terrUory^wlb' bv°rb«erved lor live rears. C A M PI EC of three of the most beautiful • HMrLCv styles will be sent, prepaid, with full Instructions, wholesale prices, etc., on receipt of •1.00. kpntoiL. LUM SMITH ; Manufact'rs. n 6 UUI ° ) 717 Rs"«om Street, (SoleAff , tforthe Apply to ( PHILADELPHIA,PA. j“ & Canada RK/ID the following extract from the January No. of the Representative Agents' Paper of the world, the Pmi.Ai)Kr.FHiA, Pa., Aoknts’ Herald : “ We regard the above a* the most remarkable and lieauUfu] Invention ever patented, and would advise the Agent reader* of the Herald particularly, to be on the alert to secure choice territory. The article Is so simple. and yet will be In such universal demand, that It will undoubtedly meet with a most enthusiastic reception and extraordinary sale. It will offer the best opportunity for coining money that has ever been presented to Agents, and the business being light, neat and respectable, will be peculiarly adapted to ladles and gentlemen who, from timidity, etc., have hitherto been debarred from engagiag In the Agency business, for want of some meritorious and suitable article to canvass. Another very Important foature or attraction Is. that all goods purchased will be promptly forwarded to even the most remote section of the country, free of express or freight charges."

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PROVERBS. PROVERBS. “For sinking spells, “ S6OO will be paid fits, dizziness, palpi- for a case-that Hop tatlon and low spir- Bitters will not cure its, rely on Hop Bit- or help.” ters.” “Read of, procure “Hop Bitten builds and use Hop Bitters, up, strengthens ana and you will be strong cures continually healthy and happy. H fram the first dose.” “Ladles, do you . want to be strong, . *kln, rosy healthy and beautl- cheeks and the sweetfull Then use Hop bre «k In Hop Bitters.” Bitten.” “ The greatest ap- “Kidney and Urlpetizer, stomach, nary complaints of all blood and liver regu- kinds permanently lator—Hop Bitters. ’ cured byHopßitters. en and Ladles need headache and dizzlHop Bitten daily.” ness,Hopßitters cures “Hop Bitters has with a few doses. restored to sobriety “Take Hop Bitten and health, perfect three times a day and wrecks from intern- youavlll have no doeperance. tor blUg to pa y.'' For Sale by Au Drugget,, Hep Bitters MPg Co., Rochester, Pi. T.

# Asthmatic Bronchitis, Of Nine Years’ Standing, Cured by the Syrup. I have been, for the last nine yean, a great sufferer from Bronchitis and Asthma, at times so 111 that for weeks 1 could neither lie down or take any nourishment of consequence, and during the time suffered Intensely. Finding no relief from all the medicines I had taken, I concluded to try your Compound Syrup of Hypnphogphltes. I have, In all, taken twelve bottle*, and now I teel as strong and well as ever I felt in my life, and for ttie last year have not had one moment’s sickness, and neither does damp ness or draught have the least effect | ffi |>wi[ . r T FELLOWS* Com pound Syrup of Hypophosphites la prescribed by the first physicians In every city and town where U has been Introduced, and It la a thorough ly orthodox preparation

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DAWS I. A BKIAXD KKOISTKR. We desire to make It known. (*r and wide, that oar Pat. White Metallic Ear Labels and Registers are used by not at Mtock-0 rowers, and their testimonials prove them to be a treat lmpiovement on every other known method ol marking and registering Cattle, Sheep and Swine. We send 100 Labels, stamped with your Dame and numbers to order, with Register sheet and a spring Punch which cuts an oval hole, and handles that will lock the Label In the hole In the ear. to any one promising to pay Vt promptly on receipt of the package by mall. It paid for Labels entitles you to the agency, with a liberal commission. Address C. DANA, West Lebanon, N. H. MW / saw - i*it'u: SLA/ hick*. anjwlirro. fin Vi so. In* cludmc iinll, -H i**M«*<i *o*lll of T PONY SAfrUCX ivt fatmonsum, Chicago,lit WARD & CO, Masquerade Costumers, 208 State St. Chicago. Tableau Eire. Burnt Cork. Wlga, and every variety of Maaka lortaje. Catalogue sent tree. UARD Tin*:hi ADVAfITAGES. ■ low lmade VISS In ten avys. In my own locality, roll Instructions, 25C. T. CTKVBN3. Aito Vista, Mo, I Tile Mill I H '

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